Keep dates when importing movies

please help. i do have lots of clips to import (after having converted them from a m2ts format). they were sorted chronologically and when imovie imports them the order is gone.
i need them to be to keep their original name as this is the time the video was taken.
does anybody have a solution for this?
thanks

If you import directly from the camera, it should preserve the date and time metadata.
If you convert your m2ts later via a converter, the clips should be named clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss.ext
where hh is hours in 24 hour time, and ext is the current extension.
If a clip is named this way, it will sort into the proper chronological order in Events, and you will be able to see the date and time metadata when skimming using VIEW/PLAYHEAD INFO.
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